In this paper we show that there is more than one way to skin a rabbit, by giving a couple of approaches to solving the problem: How many towers of all heights can be made if you have available a certain specified number of baked bean cans and spaghetti cans, but need not use them all in any one tower? We show the relevance of this problem, and more especially the techniques used to solve it, f...

Approximately 100 billion aluminum cans are produced annually, mainly for the beverage industry. Early technologies for decorating the cans often used solvent-based coatings containing solvents at concentrations of -70% to 75% by volume (Randall 1992). The solvent composition was typically a mixture of aliphatic hydrocarbons, aromatics, ethers, cellosolves, and acetates. Unfortunately, this met...

Individuals display high levels of trust and express feelings of safety when interacting with social ingroup members. Here, we investigated whether cues related to ingroup membership would change perceptions of the safety of alcohol. Participants were exposed to images of beer in either a standard can or a can featuring the colors of their university (i.e., 'fan cans'). We hypothesized that exp...

The migrations of cells and growth cones contribute to form and pattern during metazoan development. To study the mechanisms that regulate cell motility, we have screened for C. elegans mutants defective in the posteriorly directed migrations of the canal-associated neurons (CANs). Here we describe 14 genes necessary for CAN cell migration. Our characterization of the mutants has led to three c...

Before gamma irradiation can be evaluated as a technique for preserving food in tin cans, it is necessary that the amount of radiation required for sterilization be known. Although information is available concerning the sensitivity of bacterial spores in buffers (Proctor and Goldblith, 1951; Lawrence et al., 1953), such conditions are quite different from those existing in tin cans. It therefo...

The consumption of soft drinks has increased dramatically over past several decades; the soft drink industry is reported to produce 10 billion 192-ounce cases per year. Over a 50-year period, annual soft drink production appears to have increased fivefold, from 100 12-ounce cans per person in 1947 to nearly 600 12ounce cans per person in 1997. Looking at it another way, the average person in 19...